Creating an Historical Family with AI
AI filmmaking is still in its infancy, but it is developing very rapidly. As a historian, I would like to be able to use AI to bring the past to…
Geography and a New Story of Early Southeast Asian History
In recent years I’ve written some articles about early Southeast Asian history, and I don’t like how have written those articles.When you write for a “scholarly” audience, there are certain…
Using AI to Imagine Life at the Crocodile Pit in Early-Twentieth-Century Borneo
I came across the above picture in the British Colonial Office archives. It is of Chinese miners in the early twentieth century in Borneo at a place called “Lobang Buaya,”…
Bluesky, Listening, and Scholarship
When I think back on life, I realize that one of the most formative experiences that I had growing up was the time I spent listening.I grew up on a…
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“Savages” in Vietnamese History: An [AI] Tale of Borders and Beliefs
In 2017, I wrote a blog post about a tool (AntConc) that can be used to search through texts, and I talked about how we could use that tool to…
History Is Over. So, Let’s Get Started.
Just about a year ago, I wrote a blog post in which I talked about ways in which AI can make life exciting and productive for historians.It was an optimistic…